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Alejandro Giménez
Vienna, May 13 (EFE).- The work of anthropologists Maria Kahlich and Elfriede Fliethmann took an ugly turn when they started working for the Nazi regime in Poland in 1942. Sent to Tarnów to carry out “racial research” on the “typical Eastern Jews”, Kahlich and Fliethmann broke into Jewish people’s homes, forced them to undress, measured their noses and photographed them as if they were mere objects for their research.
“The Icy Gaze” photography exhibition, hosted at the House of Austrian History in Vienna, displays over 2,000 photographs of the 565 Jewish women, men and children who were photographed. Only 26 of them survived the Holocaust.